When you put similar sounds together and try to say something quickly or over and over, your brain can’t always keep up. Practicing tongue twisters with tricky sounds may help your brain get better at telling your mouth how to make that sound.

Some tongue twisters make sense. others don´t. Some are not even grammatically correct. It is important to remember that tongue twisters are useful to improve the sounds we make with our tongue, not to learn a language. This is why it is not important if they don´t make any sense.

So, tongue twisters may work well as an exercise to help you with some tough Spanish sounds (like the hard R). You can find lots of tongue twisters online. Here we have put together the ones we think are the most fun.

6. Paco guarda las pocas copas que poco a poco Pepe sacó)Paco puts away the cups that Pepe took out litle by little) Paco seems to be very organized.

7. Cuando cuentas cuentos, cuenta cuántos cuentos cuentas. Porque si no cuentas cuantos cuentos cuentas, nunca sabrás cuantos cuentos contaste.(When you tell story tales, count how many story tales you tell, because if you don’t count how many stories you tell, you’ll never know how many stories you told.)